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Circular bronze medal with band of blue enamel around the rim with a circle of white enamel in the center; attached over the white circle is a red enamel cross; suspended from a navy blue ribbon. Inscriptions around the rim on the front: "SERVICE -…

Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe

In this letter, Thomas B. Butler, a member of the Peabody Institute Board of Trustees, responds to William L. Marbury with his opinion on the admission of Paul A. Brent to the Conservatory.

Brochure for The First Annual Rosa Ponselle International Vocal Competition, 1984 with Elayne Duke as president and Igor Chichagov as music director of The Rosa Ponselle Foundation. Short biography of Rosa Ponselle, lists prizes, judges, timeline…

Alice Fitzgerald started the International School for Public Health Nurses for the Florence Nightingale International Foundation in London. Katherine Olmsted continued the work by organizing the second course at Bedford College at the University of…

Pediatric Cardiologist Helen Taussig, along with Vivien Thomas and Alfred Blalock, pioneered the first surgical operation to treat tetralogy of fallot, a congenital heart defect commonly called "blue baby syndrome", due to the characteristic blue…

As the second Director of the Nursing Bureau of the League of Red Cross Societies in Geneva, Katherine Olmsted continued Alice Fitzgerald's work of organizing local nursing schools and public health nursing services according to American nursing…